AHC: An ancient nation NOT CALLED ROME OR CHINA industrializes

@DominusNovus

I do not have enough knowledge about rivers to address your point. However, based on viewing the wikipedia pages of each river in Morocco and Tunisia, I am doubtful of the judgement that the rivers are seasonal given that many of the larger rivers along with their tributaries are the main source of agriculture in the regions throughout the seasons. The produce of agriculture do not fluctuate between seasons; there are other reasons for this of which I will not get into because it deals with modern Morocco and not 11th century Morocco for example. In terms of how common they are, don't be fooled by the map. Britain has plenty of rivers and tributaries despite the official map looking like this:

https://www.mapsofworld.com/england/maps/england-river.jpg

Even the list on wikipedia doesn't not accurately display the amount of rivers in Morocco and Tunisia. Maps of rivers often only list the major ones. This is also why the first river on the Morocco list in the article is the Loukkos River, because it's the most well-known one due to it being home to the most fertile land in the country and due to the historical events that took place there.
 
I’m not denying that there are rivers in N. Africa. But I’m pretty confident that the rivers there are too seasonal and not nearly common enough to provide enough power for industrial production.

Most appear to have low amounts of power capacity and are used for irrigation and flood control. During wetter periods (like the Roman period and most of the Little Ice Age), the situation would presumably have been better, especially since there would be less population and agricultural production than nowadays.

https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catégorie:Barrage_au_Maroc
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catégorie:Barrage_en_Algérie
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catégorie:Barrage_en_Tunisie
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Dams_in_Libya
 
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